Windy baby - will cranial osteopathy help? Stories please!

[Igglybuff]

Hi there, my DS is exclusively BF and nearly four weeks old. Over the last week he has got more windy and strains before doing explosive poos. Sometimes he strains on and off for a few hours!

His weight gain and nappy count seem fine apart from the odd green poo. However he likes to feed to try and poo (I think anyway as he will pull at me and groan which stops if he poos). This means he probably overfeeds and takes in so much air - when he's desperately straining, he really guzzles!

Anyway we've tried Infacol, cycling the legs, burping and it isnt helping.

I've seen cranial osteopathy mentioned as a possible solution but the sceptic in me isn't sure. Can anyone give me success and failure stories so I can make up my mind? DS did not have an instrumental/traumatic birth if that's relevant?
Thanks

I 'tried' it. To be honest, a friend of my mum's does it, and she offered, so it seemed rude not to.

Incidentally, ds was about six weeks old and had similar symptoms to yours.

I can report that Cranial Sacro Osteopathy is complete and utter nonsense of the worst kind. She blattered on about how my baby wanted to tell me his birth story, and that need created tension in his neck, which she would release and then he would get over his wind and sleep really well. Although he might initially sleep really badly. Er, right.

Basically, your baby is still tiny, so all his little innards and tubes are teeny tiny too. The pain he's suffering is distressing for you, but he will just grow out of it over the next few weeks.

The sceptic in you is not only right, she'll be bloody furious she wasted the money later!!

I was talking to midwife earlier and she said that sometimes you can't solve baby's problems and it'll be fine in time... Tis hard though when he's crying and you feel it should be fixable!

We had cranio scaral therapy for DD1 as she suffered from reflux - it did seem to towrk and she was much more calm. we recently tried it for DD2, she also has reflux and awful trapped wind - no joy and have spent a fortune. she is a little more settled than she was though so maybe.....

i have to say, i was so desperate i'd try anything!

we used colief until ds was about 4 months, much better than infacol, though much more expensive. then i took him to a cranial osteo and it worked like magic. i had a session myself and she fixed a sore throat that i'd had for about six weeks. and a knot that i'd probably had in my shoulder for 10 years (shoulder knot not resolved cranially btw!) i would recommend co to anyone. for £30 it's worth a go - we had been spending £10 a week on colief....

A treatment that cures sore throats and knots in shoulder muscles, and wind??

C'mon. It's either coincidence or placebo, or a bit of both.

The baby will grow out of it. In two weeks will be old enough for Gripe Water. Stick it out. It's tough, but be over soon.

just offering my own experience.

Thanks stainesmassif

no worries iggly, i was also a sceptic before trying it, though i only have my own experience to base it on. colief is definitely worth a go too - takes a couple of days to become fully effective though.

I'll look into colief. Have seen it mentioned a few times! Am also going to try baby massage - if anything might help DS sleep better when we put him down at night!

I've reported that blatant advert on this Zombie thread.